Lukas, Jeff, MV, Matt and I all recorded an interview with Daniel Schweiger for his show On the Score. I think it'll be available around November 26. We talk all about this set. I'm sure you'll all enjoy it.

Nope, if they were in recording order, then "Charlie X" (8/29/66) would be between "The Man Trap" (8/19) and "The Naked Time" (8/31). I think they must be grouped by composer, at least within each season. For season 1, counting the pilots, that'd be 4 by Courage, 6 by Steiner, and one each by Kaplan, Mullendore, and Fried. Since a couple of Steiner's scores were partial, maybe discs 3 & 4 will be Steiner and disc 5 will be the other guys.

Okay, this is the first release of the original recordings for "Charlie" and "Mudd," but both were featured on the first Varese Sarabande album with new performances of TOS music conducted by Steiner. Cues here that were not included on the VS album include:

The other three were on GNP's The Best of Star Trek Volume 2, although the first VS album also includes a version of "Corbomite" that uses the identical track selections as the GNP album many years later. Previously unreleased cues:

A couple of the cues are in a different order on the VS album and on the GNP album. Also there are a couple of typos on the GNP: "Enter Andrea" is given as "Meet Andrea" and "Ruk Protect" is called "Ruk Protests." "In the Chapel" from BoT is listed as "In Chapel" and is separate from the rest of the BoT suite.

I'm surprised at how short the BoT score is. I knew it was partial, but I didn't realize just how little new music there was. On the other hand, it turns out there are more unreleased "Corbomite" cues than I'd thought; I figured there were only 2-3 of them, but it's four, half the total. I'll be really glad to have the whole thing at last, along with the rest.

I'm also particularly looking forward to getting the original "Charlie's Mystery" cue. The second half of that, a rising/falling clarinet motif which was tracked only a few times in season 1, is one of my favorite cues, but the version on the VS album is played far more slowly than it was in the original episode, for some reason, even though it's still Steiner conducting.

Okay, so Disc 3 encompasses Steiner's first three sessions and five episodes. All that's left in season 1 are "The Conscience of the King" by Joseph Mullendore, "Shore Leave" by Gerald Fried, and "The City on the Edge of Forever" by Steiner -- plus assorted source music like Uhura's songs, the "lounge mix" of the Courage theme heard in a couple of party scenes, and the harpsichord music from "The Squire of Gothos." I wonder how they'll break down and what other extras will be on Disc 5.

Oh, whoops! How could I forget "The Enemy Within?" I didn't check the list in The Music of ST carefully enough.

So yeah, that's four scores remaining, three of which were fairly complete or at least moderately long. (The "Shore Leave" release on GNP's Volume 3 is 17:47 worth of music.) I don't think they can all fit on Disc 4. Probably Disc 5 will have at least one episode score plus the extras.

^Oh, definitely. It's one of my greatest regrets that Sol Kaplan only scored two TOS episodes. His work was fantastic.

(One of my other greatest regrets, if anyone's interested, is that "A Piece of the Action" was stuck with a stock score. Just imagine if Fielding or Fried, say, had gotten to do a full, jazzy original score for that one.)

I keep thinking I'm going to have to look this stuff up but now I'm starting to think "Oh, Chris will have done that already."

So, Corbomite was the first produced, right? But it open with Kaplan's fanfare, doesn't it? (I'm making that assumption based on the fact that it is part of Label X's recording of The Enemy Within and it open The Doomsday Machine as well.) So how much later was that recorded? I'm trying to figure out the rhyme and reason of what was recorded when vs. what was used when. Whacky I tells ya.

I'm astounded at how short some of these (to me) "definitive" scores are. Corbomite is only 7 minutes? Balance of Terror is Five?

Just give me Hideous Balok and I'm happy. ('Cause it's also the music used for the Guardian of Forever.) Oh, and all of Charlie X.

BTW, terrific way to roll out the track listings. It's truly an event.

So, Corbomite was the first produced, right? But it open with Kaplan's fanfare, doesn't it? (I'm making that assumption based on the fact that it is part of Label X's recording of The Enemy Within and it open The Doomsday Machine as well.) So how much later was that recorded? I'm trying to figure out the rhyme and reason of what was recorded when vs. what was used when. Whacky I tells ya.

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A lot of episodes spent longer in post-production than others due to their visual-effects requirements. "Corbomite" had some pretty elaborate optical shots, requiring three new miniatures and a lot of composite space shots, so that must have delayed its completion. I'd assume that scoring was one of the last stages of post-production, coming after the effects were in. So by the time "Corbomite" was ready for scoring, there was already a fair-sized library of stock cues available to track it with.

I'm pretty sure the reason some of the scores are short is because only the original content is being included, not music lifted from other episodes.

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Well, that goes without saying, doesn't it? Of course those cues are included with the episodes they were recorded for. No point in duplicating anything. Tallguy's point is that it's surprising how little original music some of these "definitive" episodes had in them.